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Category Archives: Equality
Remembering the Women
This week Yasmin Alibahi-Brown wrote a piece in the Independent entitled ‘This is still a man’s world’ She said At every level, still, even in the West, women are invisible, neglected, kept down, slighted, patronised, objectified, denied and demeaned in … Continue reading
Progression and Backlash
One of the blogs that I try to read regularly – beyond my local microcosm of Occam’s Typewriter – is that of FemaleScienceProfessor, also known as FSP for short . You can guess I would feel a sense of shared … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged affirmative action, maternity leave, minority, positive action, tenure clock, tenure track
11 Comments
The Media and (Un)Constructive Reporting – the David Lammy Saga
This week, universities and their funding have been much in the news, coupled with telling images of the anger of many students around the country at the proposed hike in fees. Another story also hit the news about universities, or … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality
Tagged access, David Lammy, minority students, Oxbridge admissions, widening participation
8 Comments
Committees and Reverse Discrimination
Recently I was discussing a new working group that was being set up within the University, and realised that all the members that I had heard named were female. I queried this and was told that that did indeed seem … Continue reading
Stereotype Threat, Underperformance and Diversity
Some months ago I came across a review in the THE for a book with the strange title of Whistling Vivaldi, by Claude Steele and it finally came to the top of my reading list recently. Far too late to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Teaching, Women in Science
Tagged Claude Steele, exam performance, minority, Whistling Vivaldi
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